The Walter A. Friedländer (Friedlander) Papers consist of 45 archival boxes of materials, dating primarily from 1932 to 1984, with the bulk of material comprising Friedländer's voluminous correspondence (30 boxes). The collection also contains biographical materials, manuscripts and publications by Friedländer, as well as course materials and materials pertaining to national and international social welfare conferences, publications by other scholars, and materials collected by Friedländer on topics of interest, particularly social welfare topics.
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The correspondence files contain over 40,000 items of correspondence, primarily from the years 1933-1984. The letters are in German, English and French and have been sub-divided into eight sub-series: 1) personal (family and friends); 2) professional; 3) correspondence with publishers and/or dealing with publications; 4) organizations; 5) politicians and public officials; 6) miscellaneous; 7) subject files; and 8) chronological files.
This sub-series contains correspondences with numerous relatives, including numerous members of the Friedländer, Bergmann, Haase and Lichtenstein families, most forced to flee Nazi Germany because of their Jewish heritage, eventually settling in the United States, England, Israel and Australia. Among the correspondence with friends included in this series, are lengthy correspondences spanning four or five decades with Irma and Erich Berndt, Paul and Käte Brün, Alfred and Charlotte Dresel, Leo and Anne Marie Grebler, Isa Gruner, Werner and Hanna Heider, Mario and Dorothee Iona, Paul and Regina Kägi, Robert M.W. and Benedicta Kempner, Robert and Herthi Liebknecht, Dyno and Mara Löwenstein, Adolf and Elisabeth Lüchinger, Hilde and Hardi Meisels, Hans and Käte Siegel.
This series contains autobiographical and biographical materials, including documents, curriculum vitae, appointment books, membership cards and awards, as well as documents concerning Friedländer's position at the Deutsche Zentrale für freie Jugendwohlfahrt in Berlin, as well as later teaching appointments at the University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and Michigan State University. Included in the early documents from Berlin are his dismissal papers from the Deutsche Zentrale für freie Jugendwohlfahrt in 1933, documentation of his years in Switzerland and France, 1933-1936, affidavits and letters of support in preparation for his immigration to the U.S. in 1937. Also included in this series are several autobiographical statements, which document the development of social welfare and social welfare education in Germany and the United States.
This sub-series has been further sub-divided into two further divisions, with sub-series 2a containing the largest volume of correspondence in the collection.
This sub-section, which is comprised of 348 folders contains approx. 14,953 items of correspondence, is the largest section in the correspondence. Of special note in this section is the lengthy correspondence (over 500 letters) between Friedländer and John Otto Reinemann, 1928-1975, which continues with his widow, Hertha, 1975-1984. Correspondents in this section also include: Angelica Balabanoff, Renée (Ate) Barth and Minna Flake, Jeanne Bauer, Hertha Beese, Erna Blencke, Curt Bondy, Dora von Caemmerer, Kenneth R. Calkins, Madeline DeAntonio, Dorothy Dessau, Walter Fabian, Beverlee Filloy, Ossip and Lillian Flechtheim, Carl Frankenstein, Elisabeth Fricke, Alfred Korach George, Arthur Gottschalk, Ernest Hamburger, Christa Hasenclever, Arthur Hillman, Robert Cuba Jones, Marie Juchacz, Karl Kautsky, Ella Kay, René König, Hilde Richter Köster, Gisela Konopka, Stephan Leibfried, Lotte Lemke, Siegfried Marck, Käthe Mende, Rudolf Pense, Sofie Quast, Käthe Rawiel, Marion (Marid) Rive-Johansen, Emma Steiger and Paul Tillich.
Most of the folders contain only several items each, however, all deal with various aspects of Walter Friedländer's professional activities in the social work and social welfare fields.